Short Life Quotes

• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love, Life, Change

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.225, Penguin

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• Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Too Short

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Regret, Grief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

  Barbra Streisand

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Funny Food

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• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• Life is wasted on the living.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Life, Sex

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.212, Del Rey

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  The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

  Joel Osteen

  Heart, Life Is Short, Life Is

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Funny Life, Learning

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.716, Pan Macmillan

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

  Walter Scott

  Dog, Loss, Compassion

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

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• No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• A lily of a day
  Is fairer far in May,
  Although it fall and die that night,
  It was the plant and flower of light.
  In small proportions we just beauties see,
  And in short measures life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Flower, Fall, Night

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  Mae West

  Life, Sexy, Trying

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• Life is too short to be serious

  Cory Monteith

  Life Is Too Short, Serious, Life Is

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• What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

  Denis Leary

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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